Yes! Spite is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning these days.

Made a Balatro Gold Sticker Tracker this weekend. I tried to incorporate @getpostman.bsky.social for the @codetv.dev challenge but didn't feel like could make enough use of it to compete. So it's mostly just @11ty.dev and some really janky JS. Very on-brand for me! balatro-gst.mikeaparicio.com

Tapping the sign. 😩

There's a great turnout at the Chicago River Swim, the first time people are swimming in the open river in a hundred years! Here are some phone photos before I get home

Fun little weekend project in process. 👀

I wish I could ♥️ the mere fact that someone logged a film on @letterboxd.social. Like, oh you watched Sicario?

The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.

I fear they have reached their target market

Let's build an interactive keyboard switch component.

I wonder what Yakov Smirnoff thinks about all this.

This. This this this this this. Build your shit. Own your shit. It's the only way forward. Nobody there but you.

My face when Fallon is the only one remaining

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

nobody wants a thinner phone. everyone wants a longer computer. look at this rig. phenomenal

RIP to Robert Redford, whose prolific career included one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. youtu.be/9tfyv4BZRug?...

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

My dad is just sending me pictures of YouTube thumbnails now. If anything I’m trying to find a sleeping position that will kill me faster.

Dan Sinker shares some Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee. “The marquee had to sell the idea of the game, the excitement around the concept and the story because the on-screen graphics alone weren’t going to do it.” [kottke.org]

From my mid-year review. "Mike hates JIRA"

JIRA tickets are truly the TPS reports of our time.

Wrote a little essay about Chicago and some other things. Shout out to Philly 😎 Rest of it is here: open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...

Andy Budd joins us to talk about why a designer might be your best early hire in a startup. Watch on youtube or find Pixels on purpose in your podcast app. youtu.be/J2I7At2BCMk?...

I've been getting back into Blue Prince, trying to get all the trophies, and came across this GDQ video where two players are playing a form of Blue Prince Bingo that's pretty neat! youtu.be/cirrfl1yQ2c?...

You "cleared" my dungeon? Was it edifying for you to slaughter my beloved monsters and steal my treasure? Did you gain the experience you wanted? You prick. You selfish asshole.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

We need you to infiltrate a notorious pedophile hangout. To make sure they don't suspect you, you will be a real-life pedophile. To do this, we are going to have you become best friends with the main pedophile for years, and then to ensure you don't get in trouble, you need to get elected president.

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

This is a cool website but also pretty fascinating experiment. pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...

I got on the phone with Colin Hanks for about an hour to talk about his new documentary about John Candy and his own experiences with Candy as “his dad’s coworker.” (There are so many Candy movies I’ll never watch the same way again) www.indiewire.com/features/int...

Excited to finally try Milly’s Pizza on Thursday. Had to order two days in advance for pickup! 😋 youtu.be/JtNtB2Og4U4?...

Tech communities give so much. It might feel like "work" to contribute to them, but you're also improving: 1. Your professional development 2. Increasing the size of your network 3. Increases the chances of you being offered jobs, speaking gigs, etc. without even starting a search

Another banger from Andy!

Wow. This could be one of the biggest scandals in NBA history. When the Timberwolves were caught trying to circumvent the NBA's salary cap, they were stripped of five first round picks, the owner and GM were suspended, Joe Smith's contract was voided, and the team was fined. This seems WAY worse.

*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”

CSS friends, I’m finally digging into anchor positioning. Is there a way to apply anchor-name and anchor-position in a way where I don’t need a custom class for each context? Short of using inline styles, I tried passing a value with a data attribute via attr() but that seemed to break.

🏆 FINALLY got the platinum trophy in Balatro on PS5. Lucked into the Hit the Road joker I needed on the erratic deck and played a bunch of four of a kind Queens with Trebuchet and Photograph. 😅 (cc @localthunk.com)

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

registered democrats be like

Chicago keeping art alive:

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.

Been playing around with Strudel since seeing that TikTok and wow, I don't know shit about music but it's fun as hell to play with! 😅 strudel.cc/workshop/get...

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life